Research Catalog

Reframing 9/11 : film, popular culture and the war on terror

Title
Reframing 9/11 : film, popular culture and the war on terror / edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula and Karen Randell.
Publication
New York : Continuum, 2010.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextUse in library MFL 10-5205Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

Details

Additional Authors
  • Birkenstein, Jeff.
  • Froula, Anna.
  • Randell, Karen.
Description
xiii, 242 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell -- (Re)creating language. Fear, terrorism and popular culture / David L. Altheide -- The aesthetics of destruction : contemporary US cinema and TV culture / Mathias Nilges -- 9/11, British Muslims, and popular literary fiction / Sara Upstone -- Left behind in America : the army of one at the end of history / Jonathan Vincent -- 9/11, manhood, mourning, and the American romance / John Mead -- An early broadside : the far right raids Master and commander : the far side of the world / Jeff Birkenstein -- The sound of the "war on terror" / Corey K. Creekmur -- Visions of war and terror. Avatars of destruction : cheerleading and deconstructing the "war on terror" in video games / David Annandale -- The land of the dead and the home of the brave : Romero's vision of a post 9/11 America / Terence McSweeney -- Superman is the faultline : fissures in the monomythic Man of steel / Alex Evans -- The tools and toys of (the) war (on terror) : consumer desire, military fetish and regime change in Batman begins / Justine Toh -- "It was like a movie" : the impossibility of representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center / Karen Randell -- The contemporary politics of the western form : Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood / Stacy Takacs -- Prophetic Narratives. Governing fear in the Iron cage of rationalism : Terry Gilliam's Brazil through the 9/11 looking glass / David H. Price -- -- Cultural anxiety, moral clarity and willful amnesia : filming Philip K. Dick after 9/11 / Lance Rubin -- Prolepsis and the "war on terror" : zombie pathology and the culture of fear in 28 days later / Anna Froula -- Afterword / John G. Cawelti.
Call Number
MFL 10-5205
ISBN
  • 9781441111326 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1441111328 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781441119056 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1441119051 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009037173
OCLC
YBP 2009037173
Title
Reframing 9/11 : film, popular culture and the war on terror / edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula and Karen Randell.
Imprint
New York : Continuum, 2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Birkenstein, Jeff.
Froula, Anna.
Randell, Karen.
Research Call Number
MFL 10-5205
View in Legacy Catalog